{ "apiVersion": "v1", "kind": "Chapter", "metadata": { "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z", "language": "en", "book": "job", "chapter": 21 }, "data": { "n": 21, "bookSlug": "job", "bookCode": "JOB", "refId": "", "title": "", "translation": null, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "JOB-21:1", "verseRef": "Job.21.1", "text": "Then Job answered and said," },{ "n": 2, "refId": "JOB-21:2", "verseRef": "Job.21.2", "text": "Hear diligently my speech; And let this be your consolations." },{ "n": 3, "refId": "JOB-21:3", "verseRef": "Job.21.3", "text": "Suffer me, and I also will speak; And after that I have spoken, mock on." },{ "n": 4, "refId": "JOB-21:4", "verseRef": "Job.21.4", "text": "As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should I not be impatient?" },{ "n": 5, "refId": "JOB-21:5", "verseRef": "Job.21.5", "text": "Mark me, and be astonished, And lay your hand upon your mouth." },{ "n": 6, "refId": "JOB-21:6", "verseRef": "Job.21.6", "text": "Even when I remember I am troubled, And horror taketh hold on my flesh." },{ "n": 7, "refId": "JOB-21:7", "verseRef": "Job.21.7", "text": "Wherefore do the wicked live, Become old, yea, wax mighty in power?" },{ "n": 8, "refId": "JOB-21:8", "verseRef": "Job.21.8", "text": "Their seed is established with them in their sight, And their offspring before their eyes." },{ "n": 9, "refId": "JOB-21:9", "verseRef": "Job.21.9", "text": "Their houses are safe from fear, Neither is the rod of God upon them." },{ "n": 10, "refId": "JOB-21:10", "verseRef": "Job.21.10", "text": "Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; Their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf." },{ "n": 11, "refId": "JOB-21:11", "verseRef": "Job.21.11", "text": "They send forth their little ones like a flock, And their children dance." },{ "n": 12, "refId": "JOB-21:12", "verseRef": "Job.21.12", "text": "They sing to the timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of the pipe." },{ "n": 13, "refId": "JOB-21:13", "verseRef": "Job.21.13", "text": "They spend their days in prosperity, And in a moment they go down to Sheol." },{ "n": 14, "refId": "JOB-21:14", "verseRef": "Job.21.14", "text": "And they say unto God, Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways." },{ "n": 15, "refId": "JOB-21:15", "verseRef": "Job.21.15", "text": "What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?" },{ "n": 16, "refId": "JOB-21:16", "verseRef": "Job.21.16", "text": "Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand: The counsel of the wicked is far from me." },{ "n": 17, "refId": "JOB-21:17", "verseRef": "Job.21.17", "text": "How oft is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity cometh upon them? That [God] distributeth sorrows in his anger?" },{ "n": 18, "refId": "JOB-21:18", "verseRef": "Job.21.18", "text": "That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carrieth away?" },{ "n": 19, "refId": "JOB-21:19", "verseRef": "Job.21.19", "text": "[Ye say], God layeth up his iniquity for his children. Let him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it:" },{ "n": 20, "refId": "JOB-21:20", "verseRef": "Job.21.20", "text": "Let his own eyes see his destruction, And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty." },{ "n": 21, "refId": "JOB-21:21", "verseRef": "Job.21.21", "text": "For what careth he for his house after him, When the number of his months is cut off?" },{ "n": 22, "refId": "JOB-21:22", "verseRef": "Job.21.22", "text": "Shall any teach God knowledge, Seeing he judgeth those that are high?" },{ "n": 23, "refId": "JOB-21:23", "verseRef": "Job.21.23", "text": "One dieth in his full strength, Being wholly at ease and quiet:" },{ "n": 24, "refId": "JOB-21:24", "verseRef": "Job.21.24", "text": "His pails are full of milk, And the marrow of his bones is moistened." },{ "n": 25, "refId": "JOB-21:25", "verseRef": "Job.21.25", "text": "And another dieth in bitterness of soul, And never tasteth of good." },{ "n": 26, "refId": "JOB-21:26", "verseRef": "Job.21.26", "text": "They lie down alike in the dust, And the worm covereth them." },{ "n": 27, "refId": "JOB-21:27", "verseRef": "Job.21.27", "text": "Behold, I know your thoughts, And the devices wherewith ye would wrong me." },{ "n": 28, "refId": "JOB-21:28", "verseRef": "Job.21.28", "text": "For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent wherein the wicked dwelt?" },{ "n": 29, "refId": "JOB-21:29", "verseRef": "Job.21.29", "text": "Have ye not asked wayfaring men? And do ye not know their evidences," },{ "n": 30, "refId": "JOB-21:30", "verseRef": "Job.21.30", "text": "That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?" },{ "n": 31, "refId": "JOB-21:31", "verseRef": "Job.21.31", "text": "Who shall declare his way to his face? And who shall repay him what he hath done?" },{ "n": 32, "refId": "JOB-21:32", "verseRef": "Job.21.32", "text": "Yet shall he be borne to the grave, And men shall keep watch over the tomb." },{ "n": 33, "refId": "JOB-21:33", "verseRef": "Job.21.33", "text": "The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, And all men shall draw after him, As there were innumerable before him." },{ "n": 34, "refId": "JOB-21:34", "verseRef": "Job.21.34", "text": "How then comfort ye me in vain, Seeing in your answers there remaineth [only] falsehood?" } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/job/chapters/21", "book": "/v1/library/books/job/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/job/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }